Funding boost for Flinders health research

Intensive care specialist Dr Shailesh Bihari has just won a $109,358 funding boost from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) to find a way to improve survival rates for patients with acute lung injury, under a new PhD project at Flinders University.

Honorary doctorates awarded at graduation

Flinders University will mark the contributions of two remarkable South Australians to Flinders and the Australian community with the award of honorary doctorates to Professor Faith Trent and Uncle Lewis O’Brien at its December graduations.

Antique honour for Celtic scholar

Flinders University’s Emeritus Professor Vincent Megaw has been elected an Honorary Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland in recognition of his outstanding scholarship on the Celts.

Abortion on the rise for women over 30

Rising abortion rates for women in their 30s and 40s in Adelaide’s southern suburbs has sparked a new awareness campaign led by Flinders University. The Southern […]

Lessons learned from the trauma of autism

For Flinders lecturer in education Leigh Burrows, one of the most complex and intractable cases of child behaviour management in her professional life has since become a source of inspiration, a PhD thesis and, most recently, a book.

Australia Council support for second novel

Flinders University creative writing lecturer Dr David Sornig won’t be around on campus next year; instead, he’s banishing himself to the metaphorical writer’s garret, thanks to a $25,000 Australia Council Emerging Writers Grant.